How We Broadcast About Death | MORNING, COMPUTER: "On Monday, I set HOUSE MD to run. So it’s been seeping into my head in the background for a few days. And, as a background noise, it’s become quite a peculiar experience.
...the whole thing is really an extended meditation on death. And, remember, this was one of America’s most popular tv shows. When you’re ignoring the plots and just half-listening to the dialogue, it becomes a weird endless sequence of studies on the permanent fog of death, how we approach it, how we prepare for it, and how there is nothing beyond it. House, the mighty atheist explorer, even goes there to look at one point, sticking a knife in a power socket to peek behind the veil and ensure the room beyond is empty. For eight years, America told itself a long story about death and the ways in which it comes, using the body of an English comedian to do it. And the wondrous, awful thing about it is that it never really backs off. House is always a brutal Modernist hero, the idealised American hospital (that most Americans will never see anything like) is still a waiting room for the graveyard, and death is always a hopeless final function that brings no peace. It is a hundred and seventy hour long dialogue on the end. That is an almost magically nihilist thing."
Can't Stop the Signal. 'Dark Web' Drug Site Challenge Law Enforcement - ABC News: "No sooner had authorities announced the shuttering of an alleged illegal online drug bazaar than another popped up claiming to take its place. Welcome to the "dark Web," an increasingly popular corner of the Internet where thousands of computer users from around the globe interact anonymously — and, in many cases, illegally. On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Justice charged a 26-year-old San Francisco man with operating Silk Road 2.0, an anonymous website that authorities say rang up $8 million in monthly drug sales. On Friday, an underground website calling itself Silk Road 3.0 Reloaded claimed to be open for business on the TOR network, which is linked globally through special browsers that encrypt Internet traffic. Several other websites on the TOR network also claimed to be open for drug transactions."
Of course. Obama authorizes sending additional troops to Iraq: "The White House authorized up to 1,500 additional troops to be sent to Iraq, the Pentagon announced Friday, doubling the size of the U.S presence there...
The additional forces reflect the challenges the U.S. faces in preparing Iraq's military to retake ground lost to the Islamic State, which has taken large chunks of Iraq and Syria. Iraqi forces are not yet capable of a large-scale offensive against the heavily armed militants, according to the Pentagon...
Despite billions of dollars of U.S. funds, a large portion of Iraq's military collapsed in June when Islamic State forces attacked Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, as well as other locations."
Parties used to be cooler.
This girl snaps ankles. Impressive.
Beautiful. humansofnewyork: “I just came back from class.... : "humansofnewyork: “I just came back from class. I’m in a continuing education program at a nearby college— it’s helping hold the Alzheimer’s at bay and keeping me out of the nursing home. Today was Genetics And Epigenetics. Tomorrow is French New Wave Film. Friday is Sociology and Religion. It’s where I get most of my socialization, too. It’s a bunch of widows and widowers like me.”
“Do you remember the saddest moment of your life?” “When my wife told me she wanted to go to hospice.”
“Do you remember the greatest day you ever spent with your wife?” “We took a cruise in Antarctica, and the weather was great, so the captain took us deeper than he normally goes, and we were floating among the icebergs, and the seals were laying out in the sun, and I remember both of us agreeing that it was the greatest day.”"
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